🇬🇧 Ox meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

An ox is a big, strong farm animal that looks like a bull (a male cow) but cannot have babies because its sex organs were removed. Farmers often use oxen (that’s the plural of ox) to pull heavy wagons, plows, or other farm tools. Oxen walk slowly but are very powerful, like living tractors from long ago.

The ox looked confused when I said "giddy-up," like, "Wrong species, kid."

Our class tried to push the tractor, but the ox moved it with one bored blink.

I tried to race the ox, and we both lost because he stopped for grass and I stopped for snacks.

The ox looked at the tiny wagon and seemed to say, "Is that all you’ve got?"

The plural of ox is "oxen," not "oxes"—which makes them sound like fancy grammar bodybuilders.

At dawn the farmer hitched the ox to a heavy cart. The ox pulled, but the cart sank deep in mud. The ox strained; its breath steamed, the ox steadied and finally freed the cart. The farmer laughed, patted the ox, and together they walked home beneath a bright rising sun.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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